Today we are drawn into remembrance. The complexity of love and loss both warms our hearts and chills our bones. Invisible connections are revealed just as the light of the sun illuminates the lines of a web, we see that our lives are connected to those who are no longer here. Blessed are we who…
Blessed are you, who feel the wound of fresh loss. or of the loss… no matter how fresh… that still makes your voice crack all these years later. You who are stuck in the impossibility. Frozen in disbelief. How can this be? It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Blessed are you, fumbling around for…
Blessed are you sitting among the shards of what could have been. It’s broken now, that dream you loved and it spilled out all over the ground. Blessed are you letting your eyes look and remember all the hope you once had. All the love, all the beauty, all the future selves. You could have…
God, I don’t love myself, so how can anyone else? Blessed are we who say, God, maybe I can borrow some of Your mercy, as I unfold to You the unloveliness within. Maybe as I hand it all over, I can borrow some of Your gentleness and grace to use for myself, to help me…
God, we are blindsidedwhat we thought was impossible,even unthinkablehas brought us to our knees. God, things don’t make sense,the innocent still suffer,buildings still fall,families still grieve. Help us to know what to feel,what to do,how to grieve—together. Blessed are wewho let reality inthough our bodies shudder.blessed are wewho ask and wait, and ask againfor answers…
a blessing when your family disappoints you o God, i am angry and hurt, and just so very sad. o God, heal me, and show me what this disappointment means. God have mercy.Christ have mercy.Spirit have mercy. though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.Psalm 27:10 God have mercy.Christ have mercy.Spirit have…
Oh God, the suffering I see is unbearable. God, come quickly.Bring swift relief and sweet comfort. God have mercy.Christ have mercy.Spirit have mercy. The world is not lost,but sometimes it seems as though.with trees and homes uprooted—and people’s lives alongside them. Blessed are we who cry out,how long, oh God?Blessed are we who hopeeven when we…
O God, we have not been here before. Sorrows old and new envelop us as we grieve in this new pandemic reality, without hugs and funerals, shared jokes and fresh tears, and graveside picnics to place flowers for those long departed. God, give us comfort that is bigger than all this, and love that is…
Dear God, the holidays are coming, and this is the first one in this new reality.I don’t know how to get through this. God, show me what to do with the memories, the traditions, the pain and the excruciating beauty of all that was. God have mercy.Christ have mercy.Spirit have mercy. He heals the brokenhearted…
Oh God, I believed that the autumn of my life might bring some new and gentle freedoms, yet now is a season of pandemic dangers and constraints. How long, o Lord? I need relief and comfort and hope. God have mercy.Christ have mercy.Spirit have mercy. Why do You hide Your face? Why do You forget…
O God,I am overwhelmed with griefand too tired to cry. O God,I need to hear yousay my name. God have mercy.Christ have mercy.Spirit have mercy. O my creator,speak me back into beingshow me the bonds of lovethat formed methat hold melet them be as ironthat enters my soul Blessed are we who seethat this present…
Oh God, there are no more answers, only silence, and the echoes of yesterday’s questions Oh God soften my heart to be able to mourn what is now lost God have mercy Christ have mercy Spirit have mercy O God unbind this sorrow Let me lament and cry and tremble for one lies broken– poured…
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